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This is an illustration from Project Gutenberg's work "The Signalman". I thought it was an interesting picture to include in the text, also it being the only picture within the text! It is drawn in a very gothic, ominous style which captures the…

This newspaper article explores the aftermath of the railway collision at the Clayton tunnel on the Brighton Railway in which 23 people were killed and hundreds were injured. This crash sent waves of sadness throughout the towns of London and…

"Polar Expedition" is made from drawings taken by Beechey after a 40 mile expedition through the polar ice, finally arriving at clear water. The contrast of the blue water and the near white ice formations gave the drawings a cutting edge against the…

The image was taken from Charles Dickens' Christmas 1866 addition which held his story "The Signalman." Normally during this time, the ads were placed throughout the different works to have an image about what the work is about, however, because of…

The image is just a small excerpt explaining the difficulties of being a signalman. Apparently, I was very easy for a signalman to cause a collusion between two trains. This is because the signalman is trying to move one train from danger, but that…

Wordsworth’s poem, originally written in 1833, can be placed into meaningful conversation with other contemporary works, such as Charles Dickens’ The Signalman. Dickens’ story highlighted the growing tension between humanity and technology, and…

The Great Train Robbery was the one of the first motion pictures produced in the United States. It was first screened in 1903, and is one of the most influential and iconic films when it comes to the development of American cinema, even though it is…

Created in the mid 1850s, this piece is a form of virtual reality in the Victorian era. The media allowed an audience to immerse themselves, virtually, in the Crystal Palace- which was a place that housed exhibitions. Through layering multiple…

While the gilded cover stamp and writing on the spine of the books suggest that this cover was created in the 1840s, Macmillan and Co. released the first edition of The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book in 1894 and 1895, respectively. Humans…